Registered Nurse Operating Room Circulator

Essential Functions

• The delivery of patient care through the framework of the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis and patient outcome) in the preoperative, interoperative and postoperative phase of the surgical patient.

Supervision Received

Operating Room Manager

Qualifications

• Minimum of an associate's degree from an accredited school of nursing
• Current Registered Nurse License - IL
• Current American Heart Assn. BLS, PALS and ACLS certifications
• Two years of operating room circulating experience in a hospital or ambulatory surgery center

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Demonstrates current, comprehensive professional knowledge and skills in conformance with recognized nursing standards and department policies including the Patient Bill of Rights and AAAHC regulations, Standards for Nursing Care and the Nurse Practice Act.
• Affirms physiological and psychosocial health status of patient.
• Verbalizes pertinent information to appropriate staff to provide continuity of care.
• Legibly documents information in patient record and signs record using appropriate professional title.
• Affirms level of understanding and expectations of care.
• Identifies desired patient outcomes.
• Establishes nursing diagnosis.
• Establishes patient/family goals that are mutually acceptable.
• Formulates Plan of Care for the patient.
• Implements nursing care plans tailored to patient/family needs.
• Demonstrates ability to assess and problem solve.
• Responds to emergencies.
• P Practices within legal and ethical guidelines (Nurse Practice Act, legal statutes, ANA code for Nurses, Policy and Procedures).
• Demonstrates proper preoperative process – communication/report.
• Demonstrates proper procedure and documentation for surgical case counting.
• Demonstrates proper aseptic technique.
• Demonstrates efficient turnover time.
• Demonstrates proper technique for obtaining blood products.
• Demonstrates proper patient identification verification per policy.
• Demonstrates proper surgical site identification and marking per policy.
• Anticipates surgeon’s needs during surgical procedure.

Team Player

• Works well as a member of a group

Detail Oriented

• Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well

Dedicated

• Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity